(02-25-2015, 10:47 AM)Coatleque Wrote: Computers have been a staple of our lives for almost 20 years now. Â If you don't know the difference between the 'address' bar and the 'search' bar, GTFO of the internet.
So tired of spoon feeding people over the phone how to browse to a simple web page.
Shortly after I got out of the military, I enrolled in a college to get my degree. Military covering it and all that, so why not. One of the first classes I got was Introduction to Computers... COMP100 or something like that (though that course number could also be Intro to Composition, I can't recall exactly). It was a required course for the programming degree I was going for.
I come in on the first day, sit down, and it opens with "How to create and use a folder." Like, Right-Click->New->Folder. That. We were being taught how to do that. And I actually had to HELP the girl next to me with both that and the introduction of "dragging stuff into folders."
But yeah. Once I found out that this was basically what the course was, I put up my hand and asked "Um, can I test out of this course?" Fortunately, I could, and the hardest part of it was a few questions about Excel. However, there are honestly people who don't know how this stuff works. It's mind-boggling, sure, but it happens.
But, seriously, you'd figure it'd be easier to just... ask a neighbor or a friend or a family member. There must be someone in your social circle you can approach to get such basic questions answered.
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